American women Quote by Rebecca Solnit

“(Speaking of epidemics, one of three Native American women will be raped, and on the reservations 88 percent of those rapes are by non-Native…

— Rebecca Solnit

There is a legacy of violence against native women that has gotten worse and worse over time.

— Louise Erdrich

“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated as a…

— Rebecca Solnit

The Violence Against Women Act didn't have specific provisions for Indian country until 2013, which is really sad. It's Native women who are the…

— Deb Haaland

“As of 2015 only a dozen of the then 567 federally recognized tribal nations recognize same-sex marriage...Other tribes, however, have explicitly restricted same-sex marriage…

— J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

“Our federal government has been taken over by men who rape and beat the women in their lives,”

— Jaclyn Friedman

Of course I am for stopping violence against women. It is unfortunate that the Senate Democrats are making the current re-authorization of Violence Against…

— Sarah Steelman

A vast majority of Republicans are on the record saying that they believe the Violence Against Women Act should be reauthorized. Let me be…

— John Cornyn

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

— Sarah Winnemucca

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.”

— Mark Twain

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

— Mark Twain

“Acknowledging that a woman's right to be safe from a gender-based attack was a "civil right," I believed, was critically important in changing the…

— Joe Biden